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Spark (1998) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1998 · 103 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Garret Williams
- Starring
- Terrence Howard, Sandra Ellis Lafferty, Nicole Ari Parker, Tom Gilroy, Timothy McNeil, Brendan Sexton III
Byron and Nina, a young African‑American couple traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles so Nina can start college, are forced to stop in a remote desert settlement on the edge of a ghost town. Confronted with overt racism and hostility they have never known, Byron’s aggressive reply to slurs and threats escalates into a desperate fight for survival, leaving the pair isolated and outnumbered.
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